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MCA 1973, s 10(2)–(4): a New Lease of Life?
Before 6 April 2022, this section was rarely encountered in practice. Its purpose, as its headnote indicates, is to offer special protection for respondents. It was not a common feature of the family law landscape simply because its use was restricted to…
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
!15/07/2022 15:13
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A Short Childless Marriage Lasting Just Months – an Award Too High?
Analysis of VV v VV – Peel J.
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- Conduct
- Premarital Cohabitation
!28/06/2022 15:12
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McCloud Remedy – a Ground to Set Aside Financial Orders?
What does the McCloud remedy mean for pension trustees? Do these circumstances amount to grounds to set aside a financial remedy order?
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!27/06/2022 18:38
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CMS Liability Orders and Appeals Against Liability Orders Made in the Magistrates' Court
Appeals against the making of liability orders.
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- Contingent Assets and Liabilities
!21/06/2022 09:00
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The Unintended Consequences of Law – a Postscript
A response to Gallagher v Gallagher (No. 1) (Reporting Restrictions) [2022] EWFC 52.
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- Transparency
!20/06/2022 20:38
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Costs Orders and Childrens’ Cases
Case law establishes that unreasonableness opens the door to the making of a costs order in a children’s case, though the court will exercise a broad discretion.
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- Costs
!14/06/2022 15:18
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Transparency in the FRC: the Workings of the TIG Sub-Group
Questionnaire to be completed is linked in the article, under Consultation.
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- Transparency
!14/06/2022 14:57
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The Class Legal Financial Remedies Skyline: a Review
Consider changes to the London skyline over a generation. Now consider Mostyn J’s contribution to the law reports over a similar time.
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!31/05/2022 13:57
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Very Much Ancillary
A lot has been written of late about the privacy (or otherwise) of family money cases, and all of it by men with big brains and a lot of words. As someone who hasn’t conducted a money case for some years (not great with numbers, me), I would not dare to o…
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- Transparency
- Publicity and Confidentiality
!31/05/2022 11:57
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Out of the Shadows, into the Light. De-mystifying Private FDRs and Arbitration.
Barristers learn to do the job as a pupil by sitting with the pupil supervisor and watching how the job is done. Solicitors do much the same with a supervising solicitor. On first appointment to a judicial appointment, deputy judges or Recorders usually s…
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- FDRs
- arbitration
!23/05/2022 09:07